The last years, there has been a lot of development of project targeting the Big Data ecosystem. As we consider this world as being the next big leap that today enterprises are undetaking, we've been focusing a lot on the different technologies that are participating into this. Because the foundations and many other applications in this world are based on Open Source software, this site is certainly a great place to talk about them.
And because of the importance that this topic is receiving from the IT community, it deserved well its dedicated section on this site.